no Jim Lee fans? i was always a fan of his.. but i dunno what the hells he upto now.. i also like Jae Lees style and a few other comic book artists.. i havent picked one up in a while now.. i ferget everything

As for Todd Mcfarlene.. hes was good.. make it big.. now hes just using his big bucks to make foolish purchases like mark mcguirew homerun ball for like a mil or something :P

James Gurney, way back before he made millions from the Dinotopia franchise, was background artist on an animated film called Fire & Ice. The interesting thing is that the other background artist on it was Thomas Kinkade (mentioned twice in this thread already), and the art director on the film was.... wait for it... FRANK FRAZETTA!

I've been after this film for years but not even amazon.com has it listed.

Can't believe anyone didn't mention Stan Sakai. Sheesh.
Right up there would be Masamune Shirow as well...
Anyone mention David Mack? His Kabuki series is pure genius.
The list goes on and on, but these are definately the three names that automatically jump to mind.

There are a couple of guys that did a whole bunch of cool shit back in the seventies and eighties. Roger and Martin Dean. I think they were schooled in mechanical and industrial technical drafting so their shit is very detail oriented. They did a lot of the old Yes album covers. They also have some excellent typefaces they made up. Check out the books "Views" and "Magnetic Storm the successor to Views".